Adj. | 1. | new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" Antonyms: old - of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" |
2. | new - other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction" | |
3. | new - having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity" Synonyms: unexampled | |
4. | new - of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" | |
5. | new - lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"; "he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel" Synonyms: wet behind the ears, raw | |
6. | new - of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion Synonyms: newfangled | |
7. | new - (often followed by `to') unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job" Synonyms: new to | |
8. | new - (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" Synonyms: young | |
9. | new - unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" | |
10. | New - in use after Medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties" | |
11. | New - used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" Synonyms: Modern | |
Adv. | 1. | new - very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes" |
NEW. Something not known before.
2. To be patented, an invention must be new. When an invention has been
described in a printed book which has been publicly circulated, and
afterwards a person takes out a patent for it, his patent is invalid,
because the invention was not new, 7 Mann' & Gr. 818. See New and Useful
Invention.